Another day another blogger...

The Fiance and I are taking off for a friends wedding in LA. So we'll be on the road in a few minutes. Even with all the great airfare discounts it is still cheaper to drive than to fly and rent a car. Not that I'm afraid of flying. If I had the dough, I'd be in the air to WDW or NYC right now. We still have our Tix to PDX in November and we plan to go.

The lack of tourists and, more so here, business travelers has hurt the travel and tourism industry. I don't know if Vegas will ever completely recover. This really sucks for me as I was days away from an interview at a strip property, and now they're not hiring at all.

Star Trek Enterprise
New show, with old plots, sounds good
First show a good start.

Saw the two hour pilot for ST:E last night. It's going to take some time to get used to the new faces and their personal story lines. I can barely remember the captain's name... Archer, I think. But, the plot was good. I'm just a little worried that it had too many in jokes for trekkers to see and not enough explanation for the new viewers (like all of today's youth). I was also impressed with the special effects. I'd like to see a few episodes shot in HD Widescreen (like ER has been doing). s

But mostly, I'm happy the show won't conflict with The West Wing. =)

Everyone has been saying how the Taliban has installed such a different world view in their people that there is no chance of reaching peace between us. In this interview a spokesman claims that in American supported countries "If someone follows the path of Islam, the government arrests him, tortures him or kills him." Well, this is true if the brand of Islam they follow calls for the murder of Americans and other innocents. This is true if it strips people of their basic human rights. But it is obviously not true if you follow the true peaceful path of Islam as there are millions of followers of Islam here in the USA. None of whom are tortured. None of whom are killed, unless convicted by a court of law.

Btw, I forgot to mention that I made my first sale for "Around Your Home" magazine yesterday. If you're inclined to give Premere Images Jewelry any business please tell them you saw their ad in "Around Your Home" magazine.

'Twas an uninteresting day. Called about 100 locations and only got one interview. Very few nibbles in todays market, let alone any one wanting to place ads in our magazine. Working totally on commission sucks. Hopefully it will start paying dividends soon.

Stacey made some more cupcakes. She's been a baking mood and I've gained 5 pounds over the last couple months. But I'm trying to eat better these days, not eat anything within a few hours of going to bed, and walking at least a couple hours a week. Eventually I'll start bike riding again. Who knows, next time you see me I could be skinny as I was in HS again, which is to say slightly plump. =)

I've been trying to write more these days as well. I am, however, not happy with what I'm producing. It's missing something: description, motivation, what have you... but maybe I'm one of those people who can't read his own work without being too critical of it. If you'd like to read what I'm writing email me and I'll send you some of my recent stuff.

It's Sunday and the official period of mourning is over. Flags should be flying at full staff again and maybe people can get back to living their lives as close to normal as this new world paradigm will allow. On the Val-L reading list I read a post about how this war is very much like a short cut to the unified economic market place that groups like the WTO and G8 have been building toward. Let us hope that along the way the humans that occupy these natural resource rich areas aren't forgotten.

If we follow our forces with a new Marshall plan to rebuild these destroyed parts of the world (many destroyed since long before WWI) then there might be hope.

In my personal life, I am affected in that trying to sell ads in a recession is very difficult... and the position I was hoping to get to provide some cash flow is no longer and that company has now laid off hundreds of people. So people! hurry up and come back to Vegas.